1 68 FOREST REGULATION 



40,000 feet on good site, and estimated 30,000 feet for average site. 

 of property. Net growth is zero, probably negative. 



c. Preliminary Cruise only. According to this, the property 

 has about eleven billion feet b. m. of merchantable stuff or about 

 12,000 feet average per acre, over fourteen inches d. b. h. ; timber 

 large, 5-6 logs per tree, and 2.6 logs per M. ft. ; cuts very sound ;. 

 timber long lived ; natural rotation over 250 years. 



d. Market just beginning in its development. Only market for 

 saw timber, preferably large stuff. Can well afford to take as little 

 as 4 M. ft. per acre, i. e., it pays to log for this amount. 



e. Danger from insects, bark beetle in old stuff and also from 

 fire ; many lightning fires here. 



f. Plan of cutting so far: Clear Cut, with few seed trees; 

 expect to bring up the cut to over one hundred million feet per year 

 within five years. 



g. In making the preliminary plans the following questions 

 arose : 



1. If one hundred million feet are cut yearly on clear cut plan, 

 it will take over 8000 acres per year. If these cuttings range them- 

 selves side by side twenty years' work will clear a solid area of about 

 ifio.ooo acres, which will, or is expected to grow up to young stands 

 of pine. Such an area of young pine would be a certain loss in case 

 of fire. 



2. If one hundred million feet are cut in this way, it will take 

 over 100 years to cover the property. In this time a great deal of 

 the more remote timber will have died and become a total loss. Part 

 of this loss is unavoidable, but may be lessened by a more speedy 

 cutting over of the entire property. 



h. Suggested Plan of Regulation : 



T. Cut on selection plan to allow free hand to purchasers to 

 select areas ; cut only 30-35% of total ; cut clear only in exceptional 

 cases and in areas no larger than necessary to remove clumps of 

 defective, over ripe stuff unable to hold over for another cut. 



2. Raise the cut as fast as possible to that indicated by the 

 growth, the growing stock now on the ground, and a rotation of 

 120 years, this latter assumed long enough to produce saw timber of 

 suitable size. 



